there are accessible browsers that don't support javascript, and there are various sound reasons to not want arbitrary javascript to run on one's computer, for freedom, security, ecology and whatnot. good engineering and w3c standards recommend graceful degradation in these cases. but really, was there strong reason to mandate javascript for that page? that seems surprising and unlikely to me.

you got me interested in the cli, I'd never heard of that. thanks, I've read the docs at https://archive.org/developers/internetarchive/cli.html and installed the program from the Trisquel repo, but I can't see how to use it to find out what's available from that web page that I can't see. any more specific pointers you'd be willing to share?